Track Record
Client names, exact figures and vessel identities are confidential — that’s standard in chartering. What we can show is how the fixture actually played out: the cargo, the pressure point, and how the desk handled it.
Fixture Case Studies
Anonymised by design — cargo, route, segment and outcome are real; counterparties are not named.
Charterer approached the desk with a laycan two other brokers had already said couldn’t be covered. Marcenta cross-checked open Supramax positions via the AI desk’s fleet feed and fixed a vessel already ballasting toward the load port, closing within 48 hours with no laycan extension needed.
Owner’s first offer sat below the desk’s own read of the Baltic C5/C3 spread that week. Marcenta held the position, re-quoted against current index levels, and the fixture closed above the owner’s opening number — with the charterer’s demurrage exposure capped through tighter laytime wording.
Port congestion at the Guinean load port was building through the week of fixing. Marcenta’s ops desk flagged the risk before subjects were lifted and renegotiated notice-of-readiness terms, sparing the charterer a laytime dispute when the vessel queued four days on arrival.
Enquiry landed on the AI desk outside London office hours. The intake was qualified and routed to a broker before the charterer’s own morning began, and the fixture was concluded same-day once the human desk opened — no back-and-forth lost to time zones.
In Their Words
“Marcenta found us a Supramax within hours of a laycan that every other broker said was impossible to cover.”
“Straight answers on freight, no inflated numbers to soften us up. That’s rare in this market.”
“Their post-fixture team caught a demurrage discrepancy before it became a dispute. That alone paid for the relationship.”
“We list every open vessel with Marcenta first. They circulate fast and never waste our time with cargo that isn’t real.”
“Their AI desk picked up our enquiry at 2am our time and had a broker following up before our own office opened.”
“Marcenta pushed back on a rate we were offering that was below market — and they were right. That honesty is why we keep coming back.”
